95 (The Inferno)

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mourir arouses in me the wish to quit the world.
In order to learn to know the boundary between
life and death, I lie on the bed, uncork the flask
containing cyanide of potassium, and let its
poisonous perfume stream out. The man with
the scythe approaches softly and voluptuously,
but at the last moment someone enters or something
else happens; either an attendant enters
under some pretext, or a wasp flies in through
the window.

The powers deny me the only joy left, and I
bow to their will.

At the beginning of July the house is empty;
the students have gone for their holidays. All
the more is my curiosity aroused by a stranger
who has taken the room on that side of mine
where my writing-table is placed. The Unknown
never speaks; he appears to be occupied in
writing on the other side of the wall which divides
us. Curiously enough, whenever I move my
chair, he moves his also, and, in general, imitates
all my movements as though he wished to annoy
me. Thus it goes on for three days. On the
fourth day I make the following observations:
If I prepare to go to sleep, he also prepares to
go to sleep in the next room; when I lie down

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